On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25. July 2012. 22.21.14 Claude Jones wrote: > > On 07/25/2012 10:01 PM, Matt Morgan wrote: > > > I have Windows actually installed on a separate partition. Can I run it > > > from inside Linux somehow? That is, without rebooting into Windows. I > > > looked at VirtualBox and Virtual Machine Manager (I'm completely new to > > > them) but it wasn't obvious that they could use a real installation of > > > Windows. > > > > You can't run your existing Windows installation 'inside Linux' as you > > ask. > > On the contrary, yes it can be done. Basically, you point VirtualBox to > your > physical partition which contains Windows, and let it boot from that. > > The only problem is that virtual hardware detected by Windows will be > different > from the host hardware it was installed on, and Windows will not like > that, so > some extra steps need to be done (creating another hardware profile in > Windows, > etc.). The OP should read all the details and caveats in the VirtualBox > documentation. > > Also, I've done this only with Windows XP, don't know if other versions are > supported or not. The OP didn't specify which Windows he is running. In > addition, there might or might not be architecture-based problems, > depending > on the 32/64bit installations of Windows, Linux and VirtualBox. > > HTH, :-) > Marko Thanks to all who responded! Wine is great but not in this case, for various reasons. And I can't probably reinstall from inside VirtualBox, as this is just the version of Windows XP that came pre-installed (OEM, that is) on the computer. So I'll give it a try, the hard way!
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